GENERAL READINGS WINTER: (Required for ALL students)

Winter Break: December 20th to Jan 4th; Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

Week 1: 
Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
Gilbert Rolfe, Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime, III and IV

Week 2:
Nietzsche, “The Birth of Tragedy,” in Continental Aesthetics
Mark Van Proyen, “The New Dionysianism,” in Sticky Sublime
Barbara Maria Stafford, “The Epiphanic Sublime,” in Sticky Sublime

Week 3:
Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” in Continental Aesthetics
Wendy Steiner, “The Sublime Shudder,” in Sticky Sublime

Week 4:
Freud, “Leonardo da Vinci,”in Continental Aesthetics
Herbert Damisch, “Freud with Kant? The Enigma of Pleasure,” in Uncontrollable Beauty
Rene Ricard, “Naked,” in Sticky Sublime

Week 5:
Lukács, “The Ideology of Modernism,” in Continental Aesthetics
Adorno, “Aesthetic Theory,” in Continental Aesthetics
Danto, “Beauty and Morality,” in Uncontrollable Beauty

Week 6:
Merleau-Ponty, “Eye and Mind,” in Continental Aesthetics
Gadamer, “Truth and Method,” in Continental Aesthetics
David Freedberg, “Arousal by Image,” in Uncontrollable Beauty

Week 7:
David Shapiro, "Monrian's Secret," in Uncontrollable Beauty
Donald Kuspit, "Frank Gehry's Anti-Sublime," in Sticky Sublime
Gilbert-Rolfe, V, in Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime

Week 8:
Lyotard, "Note on the Meaning of the Word 'Post' and Answering the
Question 'What is Post-Modernism?" in Continental Aesthetics
Barthes, "The Death of the Author," in Continental Aesthetics
Baudrillard, "Simulations," in Continental Aesthetics"
Gilbert-Rolfe, VI, in Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime

Week 9:
Salon-determined